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Pronation

noun
1.
Rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward.





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"Pronation" Quotes from Famous Books



... this was taken also illustrated well one of the chief troubles of such fractures of the forearm; the degree of splintering resulted in the formation of a large mass of callus, which for a time rendered any degree of pronation and ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... the tide. overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^; culbute^; revulsion; pirouette. transposition, transposal^, anastrophy^, metastasis, hyperbaton^, anastrophe^, hysteron proteron [Gr.], hypallage^, synchysis^, tmesis^, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome. pronation and supination [Anat.]. V. be inverted &c; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


Words linked to "Pronation" :   pronate, rotation, supination, rotary motion


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